The marshal displayed signs of a returning energy that augured well for the enterprise.

After the chairman had impressively announced that something must be done, and that he was willing to lead his little band to death's door--and beyond, if necessary--Mr.Crow pathetically upset all their hopes by saying that he had long been expecting such a calamity, and that nothing could be done.
"They took the very night when I was not here to pertect her," he lamented.

"It shows that they been a-watchin' me all along.

The job was did by persons who was in the employ of her family, an' she has been carried off secretly to keep me from findin' out who and what her parents were.

Don't ye see?
Her mother--or father, fer that matter--couldn't afford to come right out plain an' say they wanted their child after all these years.